If memory serves me right, the drummer dragged the offending youth onto the stage and said "lick this shit off my cymbal now" (or words to that effect) before he was kicked out by security. Anyone have a link?

I imagine hanging around Richey & Nicky in their 'wearing their aunties blouse' days could get quite interesting at times, there are a few stories around of people starting on one or the other and not realising that they had 5'5" of Welsh valleys nutter backing them up, Simon Price's book about the Manics mentions him once headbutting a guy clean off the stage who had made a beeline for Richey too.

on this, just because I asked them about it and they set me straight, they were genuinely mortified about the incident and had apologised profusely, they were/are very decent people. And, as the thread says, the long knife Craig used to brandish was indeed plastic.
Given I watched Craig Clause's other bank (Shit and Shine) be relentlessly torn into and interrupted by some little shit of a heckler one time, I think everyone at that show felt that would have been an acceptable time to smash that guy's face in, but Craig was amazingly restrained.